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Spectacular firework display in Derry~Londonderry at 20:13 marks start of Northern Ireland city’s year-long reign as UK's City of Culture.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The multi award-winning Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia became a Grade II* listed building today, following a decision by…
Ed Vaizey gives heritage recognition to Norman Foster building
New transmitters bring more DAB stations to local listener.
Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey, has placed a temporary export bar on the last remaining three-masted topsail schooner, Kathleen and May.
Last surviving wooden three-masted topsail schooner could leave UK.
Library authorities across England will be able to compare the services they offer with similar councils.
Local authorities across England will be able to compare their library services.
Four national treasures saved for display in UK museums in 2011/12: works by Edouard Manet, Benjamin Britten, John Nost the Elder, and 2 Italian tables.
Four national treasures worth over £29 million in total were saved from leaving the country in the last year and purchased for public collections.
North Yorkshire first area to benefit from BDUK support
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a rare wall-mounted ivory cabinet.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a spectacular Chinese porcelain casket with European mounts.
Culture Minister defers export of a George II medal cabinet, a Chinese porcelain casket and a 16th century table top.
Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on an extremely rare mid-sixteenth century south German marquetry table top
First Government-funded project goes live.
A new £6 million investment to help the UK’s creative industries was announced today.
Finds in 2011 up by eight per cent
Famous painter’s home was his studio for nearly three decades.
Long term home of renowned artist L.S. Lowry, “The Elms”, has been granted Grade II listed status on 125th anniversary year of his birth.
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